Hi, i’m nihal

Nihal Yusof · Singapore

Senior Solutions Engineer at OptioAI, with 8 production AI systems shipped across Southeast Asia and the Gulf.

Open to conversations about AI architecture and delivery

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About me

I started coding in 2015 as a computer engineering student and have shipped production AI since 2024. At OptioAI I’ve delivered 8 production AI systems, 5 chatbot and agentic systems and 3 analytics platforms, for enterprise and government clients across Southeast Asia and the Gulf, owning each from pre-sales scoping to handover. Outside work I build my own apps and run a 51-container home server, which also hosts this site.

Projects

Agentic AI platform · OptioAI

Newton

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My role: Designed the backend, co-built the front end and CI/CD, led production readiness, and extended it with RAG and analytics tools for a UAE ministry.

  • One 8-vCPU node serves 60 concurrent conversations (load-tested)
  • Prompt and Redis caching cut LLM costs by over 60%
EV fleet charging optimiser · OptioAI

VoltFlow

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My role: Built the scheduling solver and the AMPECO charging-network integration for a Singapore charge point operator.

  • Shift-aware charging schedules for a whole depot, re-planned on demand
  • Dispatcher console and driver app on one live data model
Health-insights app · personal

Kairos

In development · iOS & Android

My role: Solo: product design, the Flutter app, on-device scoring, and an end-to-end encrypted bridge so the coach runs on your own Claude or Codex subscription.

  • Android and iOS from one Flutter codebase
  • Scores computed on-device; coach requests end-to-end encrypted
Personal briefing app · personal

KopiYo

In development · iOS & Android

My role: Solo: Flutter app, Supabase back end and the ranking pipeline, with LLM summaries and duplicate stories merged into one.

  • Live commute, weather and news today; markets and sports next
  • Briefings built ahead of time, so they open instantly
Company website redesign · OptioAI

OptioAI Website

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My role: Designed and built it end to end, including the in-browser product demos.

  • Prospects can try Newton and VoltFlow without an account
  • Four product pages, two live demos and demo booking in one static build

Open source

  • Call Assist

    Kotlin · Android Telecom

    Android dialer that answers my building’s intercom and enters the gate code while the phone stays locked in my pocket, plus a full replacement phone app around it.

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  • Claude Server Bot

    Shell · systemd

    One-shot installer that runs Claude Code as one or more Telegram bots on a Linux server, kept alive by systemd.

    Source

What I do

  • AI systems & agents

    Agentic assistants, RAG and LLM-as-judge evaluation in production, on Letta, OpenRouter, self-hosted Llama 3.1, pgvector and Qdrant.

  • Solution architecture & delivery

    Pre-sales scoping to handover in five countries, including as AI lead directing a client’s own team of 15–20 engineers.

  • Full-stack engineering

    FastAPI, React, Next.js, NestJS and Flutter, with event-driven back ends on Temporal, Kafka, Celery and Redis.

  • Cloud & infrastructure

    Google Cloud (GKE, AlloyDB), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker and GitHub Actions, plus the 51-container home server this site runs on.

  • Product & interface design

    I design the interfaces for what I build, from enterprise dashboards to mobile apps.

Contact

Open to conversations about AI architecture and delivery.

[email protected]
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